Manafort's Lobbying Firm Hires Outside Counsel To Look Into Ukraine Activities
Source: Associated Press
By JEFF HORWITZ, CHAD DAY Published AUGUST 20, 2016, 10:03 AM EDT'
WASHINGTON (AP) The sudden resignation Friday of Donald Trump's campaign chairman put renewed emphasis on revelations about his past work on behalf of Ukraine's pro-Russian political leaders, including his firm's role directing a covert Washington lobbying operation that would have required him under federal law to disclose his efforts to the Justice Department.
Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign amid scrutiny of his Ukrainian work but others involved in the once-secret influence campaign remain working for Trump in senior roles, including Manafort's deputy Rick Gates.
The Associated Press reported Manafort's connection to the lobbying effort Wednesday. On Thursday, the AP reported that it had obtained emails revealing further details: Gates directed an unregistered influence campaign that included attempts to gain positive press coverage for Ukrainian officials, sway U.S. legislators, gather political intelligence and undercut American public sympathy for the imprisoned rival of Ukraine's then-president.
Meanwhile, new documents released by Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators appear to link the lobbying work the men directed in the U.S. to handwritten entries in ledgers listing $12.7 million in cash payments alongside Manafort's name. Some of that money was listed as paid to Manafort through two founding members of the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, a Brussels-based nonprofit whose lobbying efforts Manafort and Gates oversaw.
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Democat
(11,617 posts)There is likely a lot more to this than what has been reported so far.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)which he is suppose to do. And his he going to do the Chris Christie move? Ta da, sure looks like it
This is an act of treason is it not
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Dude is sweating.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)Cheetos of the gang be held as a co-conspirator-------------he had to know, when he did his "extreme vetting"
I really think that the MSM should be holding him accountable, and they should ask the new spin doctor(s) they have from brietbart on this matter---------------this should be interesting with them trying to deflect the question.
And I really want to see what Ryan and McConnell and others of this ilk have to say, because he his there "leader"